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Green Subsidies and Learning-by-doing in the Windmill Industry

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  • Jørgen Drud Hansen

    (Centre for European Studies, University of Southern Denmark)

  • Camilla Jensen

    (Centre for East European Studies, Copenhagen Business School)

  • Erik Strøjer Madsen

    (Dept. of Economics, Aarhus School of Business)

Abstract

This paper examines the remarkable learning-by-doing in the windmill industry since it emerged in the beginning of the 1980's. Green subsidies for producing electricity by wind power has been a precondition for the rapid growth in the production of windmills. Based on time series of prices of windmills a dynamic cost function for producing windmills is tested. The cost disadvantage of producing electricity by windmills relative to traditional power stations has narrowed considerably because of a strong learning-by-doing effect. The deliberate policy to subsidize production of electricity by windpower has placed Denmark in a first-mover position in this market and the future has to show whether this is a successful story of an infant industrial policy.

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  • Jørgen Drud Hansen & Camilla Jensen & Erik Strøjer Madsen, 2001. "Green Subsidies and Learning-by-doing in the Windmill Industry," CIE Discussion Papers 2001-06, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Industrial Economics.
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    1. Bahk, Byong-Hong & Gort, Michael, 1993. "Decomposing Learning by Doing in New Plants," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 101(4), pages 561-583, August.
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    Keywords

    Learning-by-doing; infant industry; green subsidies;
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    JEL classification:

    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing

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